I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
~By Meg Tilly ~
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
~By Allen Tate ~
The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.
~By Roger Ebert ~
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
~By John McCarthy ~
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
~By Susan Sontag ~
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
~By Ella Maillart ~
Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions.
~By Neil Tennant ~
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
~By Sallust ~
Big results require big ambitions.
~By Heraclitus ~
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
~By William Shakespeare ~
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
~By John Strachan ~
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
~By Brian Eno ~
The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
~By Charles Babbage ~
I think back and marvel that my ambitions were so small.
~By Helen Reddy ~
If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
~By Helen Reddy ~
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
~By Robert Burton ~
The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.
~By Placido Domingo ~
To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.
~By Rosa Bonheur ~
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
~By Salvador Dali ~
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
~By John Hurt ~
You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.
~By Michael Lewis ~
It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
~By Bono ~
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
~By Annette Funicello ~
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
~By Elvis Presley ~
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
~By William Feather ~
Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group.
~By Aslan Maskhadov ~
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.
~By Lady Gaga ~
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money however I could to keep myself going in some modest way, and I didn't need much, I was unmarried at the time, no children.
~By Paul Auster ~
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
~By Bob Dylan ~
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
~By Horace Walpole ~
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
~By Richard Linklater ~
So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
~By Katey Sagal ~
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.
~By Ethan Coen ~
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
~By George W. Bush ~
Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
~By William Eardley IV ~
My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.
~By Pearl Bailey ~
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
~By Barack Obama ~
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
~By Frances Burney ~
Mel is nuts. He puts on a suit and a tie and acts like a normal person so people think he's okay. He's definitely out in left field. He's got the ambition of a boy.
~By Dom DeLuise ~
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
~By Ilie Nastase ~
The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
~By Mitch Daniels ~
I think we still believe that ambition is for boys.
~By Jeanette Winterson ~
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
~By Jock Sturges ~
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
~By Henry Drummond ~
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~By William Whitehead ~
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
~By Adam Smith ~
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
~By Jose Saramago ~
There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
~By Patsy Cline ~
Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
~By Herbert Kaufman ~
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
~By Robert Browning ~
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
~By Bob Edwards ~
My ambition is to have beautiful encounters, not to make money.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.
~By John Hutton ~
I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.
~By Claire Bloom ~
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
~By Theophrastus ~
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
~By Daniel Boone ~
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
My ambition is to go back to Spurs and Rangers in some capacity and give something back that they gave to me.
~By Graham Roberts ~
My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.
~By George W. Bush ~
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
~By Sai Baba ~
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
~By Angela Carter ~
Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
~By James Cook ~
It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.
~By Roger Staubach ~
Before we got married, I had tremendous ambition. Once we got married and I started having children, then I just thought that that was my real life. Steve was definitely more ambitious than I.
~By Eydie Gorme ~
All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
~By Jim Henson ~
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
For those with ambition, reality is more of a creation than an unalterable certainty.
~By Lori Guinn ~
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
~By Michael Korda ~
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